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Capulin

Capulin \Cap"u*lin\ (-l[i^]n), n. [Sp. capuli.] The Mexican cherry ( Prunus Capollin). [1913 Webster] ||

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capulin

n. The (vern Mexican cherry pedia=1) ((taxlink Prunus serotina subsp. capuli subspecies), once (taxlink Prunus capollin species noshow=1)).

WordNet
capulin
  1. n. Mexican black cherry tree having edible fruit [syn: capulin tree, Prunus capuli]

  2. Mexican black cherry [syn: Mexican black cherry]

Usage examples of "capulin".

Kyril Montana waited in his car until the others had left, then moved slowly out the muddy driveway, but instead of going west toward the highway he turned right, aiming toward the mountains, and once again he climbed the winding road up Capulin Hill to the water tank on which so many junior high schoolers had painted their class years.

In the evening, after the church meeting, Joe Mon-dragon finished eating supper and, with his six-year-old son Larry in tow and a basketball under one arm, he walked up the road to the elementary school basketball court at the foot of Capulin Hill.

As the houses petered out, the agent nosed his car onto a dirt road that twisted up the side of Capulin Hill past a small deserted elementary school, continuing on up to the white Milagro water storage tank, which had numbers--'68, '70, '71--painted all over it by graduating Dona Luz Junior High School classes: students who went on to high school were bussed farther south to Chamisaville.

Within seconds, then, at least half the village was peeping curiously out from behind various curtains, half-opened doors, and trees, observing the police agent as he bumped into Pacheco's pig and later climbed up Capulin Hill, and still later as he drove back down to Bud Glea-son's house for the meeting.

When Bloom was beside her, she pointed to the town's water tank on Capulin Hill.